Poultry fountain cage



Nov. 29, 393%, A. GULLA POULTRY FOUNTAIN CAGE Filed Aug. 4, 1957 INVENTOR.' JJM/,

Patented Nov. 29, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE POULTRY FOUNTAIN CAGE Alexander Gulla, Beaver, Pa. Application August 4, 1937, Serial No. 157,401 l Claim. (Cl. 119-51) This invention relates to means for protecting rings l and I6 may have any desired spacing, poultry drinking fountains from contamination but the lower rings I1 and 22 should have a by the chicks and fowl, and it consists in the spacing such as will permit ready access of the constructions, arrangements and combinations heads and necks' of fowl and chicks to the tray 5 herein described and claimed. I8 of the fountain but such as to prevent bodily 5 1n the past considerable loss of chicks and fowl entrance of the fowl and chicks to the interior has been experienced due to unclean or conof the cage. The ring 22 will be spaced from the taminated water, brought on by the fowl getting lower ring I4 such distance as to prevent chicks into the water, leaving droppings or otherwise from gaining access therebetween, and in pracmaking the water unt for drinking purposes. tice, has a spacing of about two inches. l0

It is therefore an object of the invention to The upper portion of the cage I0 is provided provide a cage structure which may be readily with a conical roof I9, formed fromasingle blank installed over a drinking fountain, vessel or conof metal, as may be seen in Figure 3. At suitable tainer for the water of such character as to prespaced points of the blank a series of tongues l5 vent the fowl from actually getting into the are formed. The tongues 20 are provided by l5 water, yet permitting access for drinking purslitting the metal of the blank inwardly of its poses. circumference a suitable distance. Thus, when It is also an object of the invention to provide the tongues 20 are bent inwardly and around the a structure which may be manufactured at a upper ring I3, as shown in Figure 2, an over- 20 low cost and effective for the purpose intended. hanging ange 2l is provided. 20

Additional objects, advantages and features` of The conical roof prevents chicks and fowl from invention will be apparent from the following roosting thereon and the ange 2l insures against description considered in conjunction with the droppings of any foreign matter from above accompanying drawing, whereinentering the tray I8.

Figure l is a perspective View of the cage. While I have shown and described a preferred 25 Figure 2 is an elevational view of the device in form o-f the invention, this is by way of illustrause upon a conventional drinking fountain, partsy tion only, and I consider as my own all such being broken away. modifications as fairly fall within the scope of Figure 3 is a plan view of the blank for top of the appended claim. the cage. I claim: 30

There is illustrated a cage-like structure I0, A cage for poultry drinking fountains or the which may be of any desired height and of such like comprising a wire structure of a size to house circumference as to readily house or enclose a the fountain, consisting of a plurality of vertically water fountain, vessel or container, generally inspaced bars, a ring member fixed to the upper and dicated at il. lower ends of the bars, ring members xed to the 35 The cage I@ consists of a plurality of vertical bars intermediate the upper and lower bars, one bars I2 which preferably are formed from light of the ring members being spaced only sufficient gauge metal and may have any desired Shape. distance above the upper edge of atray within the The bars I2 are spaced and secured at their upper cage to admit the head of a fowl or chick there- 0 and lower ends by respective ring members I3 between, and a conical roof secured to the upper- 40 and I4 and between these ring members a suitable most ring, said roof including circumferentially number Of ring members are provided, secured t0 spaced tongues adapted to be bent around the the bars i2. In the present instance, four rings uppermost ring. are shown, indicated at I5, I6, I1 and 22. The ALEXANDER GULLA. 

